Knowing what you want to do from first grade. Priceless. Meet Scott Trimarco, the pump guy. Scott is the man when it comes to hydraulic steering pumps – high flow applications is where his product thrives. Listen in to hear how all that came about. Scott’s Custom Offroad
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TRANSCRIPT
[00:01:20.290] – Big Rich Klein
On today’s episode of Conversations with Big Rich, we have Scott Trimarco. Scott is the owner of Scott’s Custom Offroad. He’s also an engineer. He’s the pump guy and he’s one of our rock crawling competitors at We Rock and other places in the Northeast. He’s from Altona, Pennsylvania. Scott, so good to have you on board today. Hope everything’s going good.
[00:01:48.070] – Scott Trimarco
Yeah, Rich, it’s great. I’m excited to talk to you. I’m privileged to be on this show with all the other people that have been on it so far. When you asked, I said that would be fun.
[00:02:01.600] – Big Rich Klein
Absolutely. It’s always fun. People will, even friends of yours that you’re around a lot will hopefully learn some things today that they didn’t know. That’s what typically happens. So we’ll see how this goes. So let’s ask the first question, which is always, where were you born and raised?
[00:02:24.970] – Scott Trimarco
I was born and raised in actually Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania, which is only 3 miles from where I live here. Now it’s in Dunkinsville, which is just sort of a suburb of Altoona, and born in Altoona Hospital. So this is where I was born and raised and I still live here. Basically. I moved away for three months for a job one time, but I moved right back.
[00:02:52.630] – Big Rich Klein
You must really like the area.
[00:02:55.030] – Scott Trimarco
Yeah, you could say that.
[00:02:57.260] – Big Rich Klein
Excellent. So let’s talk about those early years. School, bicycles, motorcycles. What was your thing?
[00:03:11.810] – Scott Trimarco
I guess sports was my first thing. I played baseball all the way from pee wee up to high school ball and I quit playing around 11th grade or so and politics got involved a little bit. I think I just didn’t really care for it anymore. And then I played golf and my dad was a big golfer and so I learned how to golf when I was around twelve and he took me golfing a lot, and I actually went with my grandmother a lot, too. She golfed a lot. So I learned how to golf. I was decent. I played on the high school team, played a couple of matches and stuff. I could shoot in maybe the 80s, but somewhere in maybe like late grade school or junior high, we had a new neighbor move in, and he gave me an RC monster truck Tamiya. I think it was a Bigfoot or something. And it was like I hit the jackpot. And I remember it was wintertime and I drove the thing in the snow and it was just a blast. And it was hobby grade type of thing. And I was really into Legos before that.
[00:04:27.770] – Scott Trimarco
So this was like the next level, putting things together and seeing how they work and stuff. So I continue with that. I was like really into RC stuff while I was doing the sports things. And so I cut grass up and saved money for more RC cars and airplanes. I got an airplane for Christmas and like a five foot wing span trainer model that I never learned how to fly, but I put it together.
[00:05:02.990] – Big Rich Klein
Was it completely remote or did it have like, the wires attached?
[00:05:06.910] – Scott Trimarco
Well, backing up a little bit. I did have first with the wires attached.
[00:05:12.780] – Big Rich Klein
Okay.
[00:05:14.130] – Scott Trimarco
I remember my dad used to have to start it for me, and I would fly around, spin around the circle, and I used the heck out of that thing. And then I think that’s what drove getting one for Christmas of the real RC plane.
[00:05:28.560] – Big Rich Klein
Wow.
[00:05:29.110] – Scott Trimarco
So I got one of those and I put it together in the wintertime after Christmas and springtime came around, and my dad was like, well, let’s take it out to the field and we’ll try to fly. Well, he said, let’s just drive it around. You can maybe taxi it around, make sure everything works. And we made a mistake. We left the wings on it and we shouldn’t have done that. And he’s like, this make it hop up in the air a little bit? Well, I did and it just went straight up in the air and he’s yelling, what are you doing? And I’m just saying, I don’t know. It came crashing down and just smashed into a bunch of pieces. And it was balsa wood. But I rebuilt the whole thing and got it looking like it originally did and never flew it again until I was in College. And there was a local airport, a little RC airport around here that I took it there and a guy flew it for me, took it off, and I flew it around. We had like a connection between our remotes and anyway, I got to fly it briefly, but he landed it and stuff.
[00:06:44.910] – Big Rich Klein
When I was a kid, I had one of those spin around in a circle. I flew it for a total of maybe 15 seconds, and it totally destroyed it. I don’t ever remember flying it again or getting another thing like that. READ MORE
